The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1989 Page: 13 of 16
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THE RICE THRESHER f-RIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 13
SPORTS
Owls roast Ags but fall
to Bear munstrosity
by Keith Couch
Coach Scott Thompson's Owls
showed two faces in Autry Court
over the last week. Last Saturday,
they were basketball demons, as
they burned Texas A&M with some
clutch shooting and made Autry a
living hell for the Aggies. Four days
later, however, the Owls proved to be
merely lifeless corpses as they fell to
the cellar-dwelling Baylor Bears by a
score of 68 to 61.
Wednesday's game against Bay-
lor was ghoulish enough to attract a
real demon in the form of Grampa
from The Munsters (actor A1 Lewis,
who was in attendance). Rice shot a
ghastly 39 percent from the field, and
no Owl was bloodthirsty enough to
crack double figures in scoring.
The Bears rejoined the living with
their first conference win, first road
win, and first win of the new year.
Baylor beat the Owls for the fifth
straight time in Houston.
Rice often endured long scoring
droughts, including a five minute
scoreless stretch late in the first half.
Despite their troubles, the Owls led
32-29 at the intermission. The Owls
clung to the lead, and were up by five
with 8:13 to go in the game, but could
score only four points over the next
five minutes as the Bears rallied.
Three pointers from Donnell Ha-
yden and Melvin Hunt gave the
Bears the boost they needed, and the
Owls could not break out of their
shooting slump. Late in the game,
the Bears were virtually perfect from
the free throw line to clinch the win.
"It was a very disappointing win,"
said Coach Thompson. "We had a
chance to take a big step forward
tonight It's not a step backward,
though, because we're still playing 3
or 4 freshmen. We have to go
through a winning process where we
can come off a win and play well in
the next game."
Last Saturday night, the Owls
temporarily exorcised many of their
personal demons by downing the
Texas A&M Aggies 79-77 before
3,306 yowling faithful at Autry. The
fans were a factor early on, as they
cascaded the court with toilet paper
after Rice sank its first bucket. The
officials assessed a technical, and the
two shots helped the Aggies to an
early 11-2 lead.
Coach Thompson regretted the
technical foul, but lavished praise on
the support of the Rice student sec-
tion. "I can't say enough about our
student support," he said. "It's tough
to give up the two points, but our fans
were just great tonight." The fans
were loud enough, in fact, to force
the Aggies to pull their chairs out
onto the court during timeouts to
escape the noise.
The lead changed hands nine
times in a tightly played second half.
With the score knotted at 73 with
1:20 remaining, Ken Rourke passed
to a charging David Willie in the lane
for a wide open layup. The Aggies
replied with a ten foot baseline
jumper from David Williams, who
was fouled by Rourke. The Aggies
could not complete the three-point
play, however, as Donald Thompson
was whistled for a lane violation on
Dana Hardy tries to put one up against the useless protests of an annoying Aggie
the free throw.
A few seconds later, Dana Hardy
hit both ends of a one-and-one to
allow Rice to nose ahead again, but
Thompson's short jumper at the
other end brought the Aggies even
again with 28 seconds to go. The
Aggies' Doug Dennis then fouled
Willie on a move to the hoop with
four seconds to go, sending the so-
phomore forward to the line with the
game on the line. Willie coolly sank
both shots. The Aggies could n't get a
good shot away before the final
buzzer. Pandemonium ensued.
"Those were probably the most
important points I've made at Rice,"
Willie said. "I really wanted to make
those free throws because I've
struggled so much with my shooting
this year." Coach Thompson praised
Willie's maturity at the line, saying
"He hasn't scored as much this sea-
son but he is turning int a good all-
around player. People tend to forget
that he's just a sophomore."
Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf, his
nose still frostbitten from his team's
icily boring half-court offense,
praised Rice's shooting. "Rice has
some good three-point shooters.
Tonight they hit them. They also hit
some pressure free throws down the
stretch. But the bottom line was two
teams laying everything on the line
out there on the court." The Owk
sank 10 three pointers on 23 at-
tempts and were 17 of 19 from the
charity stripe.
Another key to victory was the
contribution of Rice's bench, which
came up with 35 points to 15 points
from the Aggie subs Senior forward
Richard Holmes provided a spark
with 12 points, bolstering the inside
game in the absence of starting cen-
ter Andy Gilchrist, who sat out with
the flu. Reserve guard Dave Mlach-
nik also chipped in 11 points, includ-
ing three pointers.
Hardy led all scorers with 18
points, including four three pointers.
Rourke added 16 points and 8 re-
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McGarrity, Patrick & Sendek, Joel. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1989, newspaper, January 27, 1989; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245711/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.